Rouge : poems / Adrian De Leon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Leon, Adrian, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toronto (Ont.)--Poetry.

Toronto (Ont.).

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd., [2018]

Summary:

"To commemorate a tragedy-and celebrate a subway line. Toronto the not-so-good? This series of poems is a response to the 2012 Danzig Street mass shooting at a block party in Toronto's Scarborough area, during a period when gun violence had reached a peak in the city. Here the city's east end becomes a source of poetic inspiration, and the east-west subway line as the organizing structure. Going from west to east, each poem is informed by a TTC subway stop, inspiring form, voice, and content. We get meditations, commentary, and visual poetry. The conclusion is a pair of poems, both titled "Rouge": the first makes use of reports, songs, and tweets that appeared following the shooting, and the second is a lyrical response."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

De Leon, Adrian, author. Rouge.

ISBN:

9781988449487

1988449480

OCLC:

1050607963

Publisher Number:

99982910455